It feels like I'm never going to get a release out the
door. I've been aiming for 0.2.0 for sometime around now,
give or take a week or two. I've got enough of a system that
I can install it (using the Slackware install floppies and
manual procedure) and almost get it booted and working. I've
run into a couple of nasty problems. First, I couldn't
understand why GRUB wasn't working properly--I was afraid
something was wrong with the compile, but it turns out I was
mis-understanding how it was supposed to work when /boot was
a separate partition. Finally, it booted, but my kernel
didn't get past the uncompressing message. Turns out I'd
accidentally built for i686, and installing on an i586.
Rebuilt the kernel, only to figure out I'd built IDE support
as a module. *sigh*

A much nastier and irritating problem is that glibc seems
to be building for i686 somehow. I've installed the glibc
RPM from Red Hat 6.2 and everything works fine. Using mine,
however, certain applications, like 'mount' quit when trying
to do certain operations with 'Illegal instruction'. A bit
of searching on the web and looking at the Glibc FAQ
indicates that it was built with optimization for i686, but
I tried again, making sure the host type was correct and
giving it the appropriate options, but it still fails. I'm
hopeful I will resolve this sometime this week, and will be
able to make at least a partially usable release very soon.

In hopes of getting this release out ASAP, I've decided
to punt on building a better init system for now, and am
just using the Slackware init system.

At least almost everything builds and installs. There are
a few packages, like 'at', that don't, but I'm not terribly
concerned with them. Of course, there are also a lot of
packages that need to be added.